Woman kneeling facing right: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A figure of a woman shown in profile, positioned on her knees and facing toward the right. This specific version features a medium-light skin tone, rendered in a standard digital character style.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent prayer, physical exhaustion, submission, or the act of proposing. It is often used in digital conversation alongside other gestures like 🙏 to convey gratitude or 🛌 to indicate resting.

History

The kneeling woman was added to the Unicode standard as part of a push for more gender-inclusive emoji representations. It builds upon the earlier, more generic 🧎 symbol by allowing users to specify gender and skin tone modifiers, reflecting the evolution of complex, multi-part character sequences in modern messaging.

Details

Glyph

🧎🏼‍♀‍➡

Unicode

U+1F9CE U+1F3FC U+200D U+2640 U+200D U+27A1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3fc_200d_2640_200d_27a1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCE;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍♀‍➡

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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